Adapting to change: panel session and workshop coming in January

Research plans often change as a PhD progresses, but this year the coronavirus pandemic has caused havoc with everybody's research projects. Doctoral students are facing disruption and delays to research, data collection and fieldwork, alongside coping with the impact of the pandemic itself. Being flexible in your plans - adapting to change as it happens …

Embracing Chaos: issue 10.1 of Excursions postgraduate journal out now

Excursions is an open access University of Sussex journal run by and for postgraduate researchers. Read the entire issue on the Excursions website. When Excursions chose ‘chaos’ as our theme for 2020, we had no idea how prophetic this choice would turn out to be. A year ago, we published our Call for Papers inviting researchers to …

PhD Life Raft Podcast looks at doctoral wellbeing

Dr Emma Brodzinski, an academic at Royal Holloway, University of London and also a therapist in private practice, has launched a new podcast looking at PhD mental health and wellbeing. The PhD Life Raft Podcast offers weekly episodes on topics from Imposter Syndrome to “What Your Supervisor Wants You to Know…”, and aims to support …

Become an Associate of the Sussex Humanities Lab

The Sussex Humanities Lab are offering the opportunity for faculty staff and doctoral researchers to become a Sussex Humanities Lab (SHL) Associate. All you need is an interest in digital humanities or a desire to learn more. You don't need a deep understanding of digital humanities, a fledgling interest is sufficient. Benefits of SHL Association: …

Call for applications: British Library PhD placement scheme

Current PhD students are invited to apply to the British Library PhD Placement Scheme. Placement projects are offered from a variety of areas across the Library, from art collections, cataloguing and community engagement to digital preservation and climate policy. Placements are for 3 months or part-time equivalent, to be undertaken from May 2021 onwards (unless …